Royal Visit: ‘A shared regret’ over deaths in the Troubles

The Prince of Wales has expressed regret over lives lost in the Troubles, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said.

Mr Adams, one of the most prominent and controversial republican figures of the last 50 years, said he spoke to Prince Charles in a private meeting about the 1979 IRA bombing in which his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered.

“Both he and we expressed our regret for what happened from 1968 onwards,” Mr Adams said.